How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end – after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent girl Oksana with her. Mum transmits the order of his father to take care of Oksana, as if he was a little sister … A film adaptation of the story “The Joy of Our Home” by the classic of Soviet literature Mustay Karim.